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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...plorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technology]] ...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portugue...
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa
30: ...er]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...lso the first female artist to paint history and religious paintings, at a time when such heroic theme...
9: ...usanna and the Elders, Sch?rn Collection, Pommersfelden]]
10: ...located in the [[Sch?rn collection]] in [[Pommersfelden]]. The picture shows how, under parental guida...
12: ...ed the Tuscan painter to tutor his daughter privately. The unfortunate effect was that Artemisia was r...
14: ...orture device in the belief that if a person can tell the same story under torture as without it, the ... - Guyana (12153 bytes)
1: ... by the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. The border with Venezuela is one that is disputed, as is the most southern...
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62: ...blished three separate colonies; [[Essequibo]] ([[1616]]), [[Berbice]] ([[1627]]), and [[Demerara]] ([[1... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ypt]] (listed clockwise from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines of the [[Mediterranean Sea|...
6: ...7;שראל<br>("Medinat Yisra'el")<br>دولة اس&...
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8: image_flag = Israel_flag_large.png |
9: image_coat = Israel-coa-medium.png | - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
5: ... = United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
18: ...der_names = [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]]<br>[[Tony Blair]] |
47: *[[Welsh language|Welsh]]: ''Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwer...
48: *<small>[[Scottish Gaelic language|Scottish Gaelic]]: ''An R쯧hachd Aonaichte na Breatainn Mh...
49: *<small>[[Irish language|Irish Gaelic]]: ''R�ht Aontaithe na Breataine M agus T... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[scu...
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[paint...
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
43: *[[Else Alfelt]] ([[1910]]-[[1974]]) - Dynasties in Chinese history (8665 bytes)
1: Below is a table of the '''dynasties in Chinese histo...
7: ...rlier. It should also be noted that history is rarely as neat as it is portrayed and it was rare indee...
9: ...sty itself was established in [[1636]] (or even [[1616]], albeit under a different name), while the last...
11: ...sties listed here and their emperors, follow the relevant links in the table. Click on '''H''' for th...
15: <table border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" align="center"> - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...ther of [[science]]." His experimental work is widely considered complementary to the writings of [[Fr...
10: ...the separation of science from [[philosophy]] or religion. These are the primary justifications for hi...
12: ...rived at deductively, and the experiments were merely illustrative thought experiments.
18: ...ir shipping businesses. He published his initial telescopic astronomical [[observation]]s in March [[1...
20: ...eo first noted an observation of the [[natural satellite|moons]] of [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. Gali... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
8: ...Cecil, Lord Burghley, the great minister of Queen Elizabeth.
10: ... that his health during that time, as later, was delicate. He entered [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], ...
12: ...the Queen, who was impressed by his precocious intellect, and was accustomed to call him "the young Lo...
14: ...Aristotle]] conflicted with his dislike of Aristotelian philosophy, which seemed barren, disputatious,...
18: ...ney and became habitually in debt. To support himself, he took up his residence in law at Gray's Inn i... - Dentistry (9670 bytes)
7: ...Bachelor of Dental Surgery) or B.D.Sc degree (Bachelor of Dental Science).
13: ...se fields are designated registrable (U.S. "Board Eligible") and warrant exclusive titles such as orth...
15: ...entists to call themselves specialists in these fields. The specialist titles are registrable titles ...
17: ...any dentist with experience or training in this field. The function of the forensic dentist is primar...
20: ...mb|''Farmer at the dentist'', [[Johann Liss]], c. 1616-17.]] - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...ublic]])) was a [[Denmark|Danish]] [[nobleman]], well known as an [[astronomer]]/[[astrologer]] (the t...
12: ...at he began to make his own studies of astronomy helped by some of the professors. He purchased an [[e...
16: ...arge the existing instruments, and construct entirely new ones. Tycho's naked eye measurements of plan...
18: ...his nose. A consequence of this was that Tycho developed an interest in [[medicine]] and [[alchemy]]. ...
22: ... to Augsburg, where he built a great quadrant, Basel, and Freiburg. He was informed about his father's... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
1: '''Baldassare Castiglione, count of Novellata''' ([[December 6]], [[1478]] – [[Februa...
8: ...] at the time of marquis [[Lodovico Gonzaga]], a relative of Luigia Gonzaga, mother of Castiglione.
10: ...of [[Urbino]], and in [[1504]] Gonzaga, although reluctant, allowed him to pass to that court.
13: ... many others. Notably, guests used to organise intellectual competitions which resulted in an interest...
15: ...mo Gonzaga) his eclogue ''Tirsi'' in which allusively, beyond the figures of three shepherds, he origi... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
2: ... all [[writer]]s in the [[English language]], as well as one of the world's pre-eminent [[dramatist]]s...
4: ...re was among the very few playwrights who have excelled in both [[tragedy]] and [[comedy]].
6: ...hakespeare wrote his works between [[1588]] and [[1616]], although the exact dates and [[Chronology of S...
14: ...d on that day in [[1616]], and, perhaps appropriately for a playwright commonly considered to be [[Eng...
19: ...n in Latin grammar and literature. The quality of Elizabethian era grammar schools was uneven. It is p... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
1: ...t does not normally include crimes on board a vessel among passengers or crew. The term has been used ...
4: ...e first example of universal jurisdiction. Nevertheless today the [[international community]] is facin...
10: ...]] and [[Tyrrhenians]] were known as pirates, as well as [[Ancient Greece|Greeks]] and [[Ancient Rome|...
12: ...esar]] was kidnapped by [[Cilicia]]n pirates and held prisoner in the [[Dodecanese]] islet of [[Farmak...
20: ... had been raiding the coasts of [[Armorica]] and Belgic [[Gaul]]. - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
2: ...d on his return by Queen [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]]. He was second in command of the Engli...
7: ...ife. Francis was the eldest or second eldest of twelve children.
12: ...rake the favour of [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth]].
13: ...t each survivor was rich for life. However, Queen Elizabeth, who had up to this point sponsored and en...
16: ...ent as had been believed previously, but an archipelago, or group of islands. - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...s a reaction to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day. ...
4: ...ter and form; second, he rejects any appeal to [[Teleology|ends]]—divine or natural—in explaining ...
6: ...computer]] and by the possibility of [[machine intelligence]], blossomed into, e.g., the [[Turing test...
11: ...''Baccalauréat'' and ''Licence'' in [[law]] in [[1616]].
14: ... ranks, gathering various experiences, testing myself in the situations which fortune offered me, and ... - Inquisition (9274 bytes)
5: ...en focus on dealing with heresy, and those whose beliefs or practices deviated sufficiently from the o...
7: ...resies (from Greek ''haeresis'', sect, school of belief) were a problem for the Church from the beginn...
24: ...er [[Ferdinand II of Aragon|Ferdinand]] and [[Isabella of Castile]], the Spanish inquisition became in...
28: ...o [[Copernicus]]'s ''[[De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium]]'' to be placed on the [[Index Librorum Pr...
36: ...to eliminate a sort of [[syncretism]] that was developing there, which combined aspects of [[Hinduism]... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
1: ...metallurgy]], [[medicine]], [[mysticism]], and [[religion]]. There were three main goals many alchemis...
2: ...ls. This mythical substance, which could just as well be powder or liquid as a stone, had the ability ...
8: ...ver". The Arabic therefore could derive from a purely Greek word, not Coptic, and have been later conn...
11: ...c scientific tools and practices were available, relying instead on [[rule of thumb|rules of thumb]], ...
13: ...the spiritual development of the practitioner as well as a material meaning connected to physical tran... - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
1: ...|right|''Samuel de Champlain''<br>by Th鯰hile Hamel (1870)]]
3: ...ce to regain funding. This article covers his travels, as they have had the most lasting importance to...
5: ==Early Travels==
7: ... on [[September 20]], wrote an account of his travels called ''Des sauvages'' (The Savages).
9: ...604]] led by [[Pierre Dugua Sieur de Monts]]. He helped found the [[Saint Croix Island, New Brunswick|... - Baffin Bay (763 bytes)
5: ...l narrow channels of [[Nares Strait]]. These channels are covered year-round by the polar ice cap.
7: ...fin]], the first person to navigate the bay, in [[1616]].
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